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Thursday, 11 July 2013

A God for Agnostics

Additionally, it
appears to me that many of my great friends who are Christian, for the most
part, lack intellectual curiosity. The constant need to question facts, atrocities
or wonders of the world, or indeed even issues and events in their life can all
be summed up by a single, all-encompassing answer; “Jesus”. It reminds me of
the typical response as expressed by a political commentator on TYT; “I have
forgotten the question, but I know Jesus is the answer”. It is a right excuse to
allow a manner of all injustices to occur in the world, why there is already a
higher being who right even the most egregious of wrongs in the world.

I believe you have
to suspend a great amount of rational and logic to be able to believe that
talking snakes, fly horses and magical fruit actually existed in our world a long time ago. Even more so; a man who can walk on
water, is also able to chemically transform said water into alcohol, and is
somehow a living embodiment of God requires in my view at least years of
indoctrination that no PDHPE program ever could.

It has always
puzzled me as to how some of my brightest friends, (albeit the proportion
tapers down the more intelligent they are), are still able to find a religious
donctrine compatible with their reality. But if it assists them in their trade,
perhaps with spiritual assurance or sel-righteousness then I guess I don't really have an issue with this.

The only problem
that really arises is when it affects public policy, which thankfully is a
problem seen in greater force in America than Australia. Politics there is
marred by 'Judeo-Christian value', ie. An excuse to lower taxes, reduce food
stamp and poverty assistance programs, religious education within our schools.

This all comes
through the perspective from someone who describes himself as spiritual, but
only to the extent that I warm to Buddhist practices of meditation, calmness
and stress relief. In the meanime I will just observe my surroundings and the
religiosity of the people in my life.